California Forward
Annual gathering will happen in Ontario, the first time the Summit will take place in the Inland Empire, where the effects of the Great Recession were felt most severely and the issues of workforce, housing and water are vital.
read moreEmployers concerned about filling open jobs with skilled workers and community college faculty came to hear about task force’s new recommendations to boost workforce development in California.
read moreLaunchpath connects regional employers with high school and community college students to give them a leg up in the competition for jobs and gives a boost to the local workforce.
read moreEntrepreneurs can take advantage of these manufacturing spaces for small businesses and which advocates call “critical pieces of a jobs, innovation, and education infrastructure.”
read moreGroup formed to craft strategies for boosting California’s workforce via the California Community College system submitted their final recommendations this week.
read moreGetting students, counselors and colleges on the same path that connects courses with actual, in-demand careers is critical to the future of the California workforce.
read moreFor California to develop the workforce necessary to remain globally competitive, employers must be given ways to play a larger role in the state’s workforce training system, the California Economic Summit emphasized in a letter to the task force charged with making community colleges more responsive to the state’s economy.
read moreWrap-up of gathering that brought together problem solvers in the public, private and nonprofit sectors to take on the state’s most intractable social and environmental problems.
read moreMany workers lack not just basic office skills but also essential entrepreneurial and career management skills, say employers looking to hire.
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